Ask an ex-mormon nerd

[c172]

Funeral potatoes are fucking awesome!!!111 yes no

[LivingNumbers6.626]

Does the church claim to have the plates and stones? Can they be seen?

What is the big deal with genealogy?

Did you wear the magic underwear?

Question 1: No, supposedly they were taken to heaven, as per the word of mainstream mormonism which is the sect I was raised in. 

Question 2: Mainly for the uses of temple work, ie: baptisms, confirmations, and sealings (mormon covenant for married members) for the dead which is crucial to the doctrine since families are for eternity but they must be members to be together forever in the highest degree of heaven. Then, also, for the reasonable humanistic need to feel connected to one's heritage and history...but it's mostly driven by religious needs. 

Questions 3: No, I never received my first covenant of "endowment" in the temple so I was never required to wear it. If I had done endowments, then yes, I would have.

[LivingNumbers6.626]

Funeral potatoes are fucking awesome!!!111 yes no

You know the cravings of my mormon palate. I freaking love those things. That and mormon jello. Woop woop! hahah

[Paraselene]

Questions 3: No, I never received my first covenant of "endowment" in the temple so I was never required to wear it. If I had done endowments, then yes, I would have.

That is sad. The magic underwear makes mormon boys that much sexier.

[LivingNumbers6.626]

I try not to understand it anymore.

You may find that understanding it, embracing it in fact, will only strengthen your resolve against your former belief.  Just pushing it aside with no thought of it whatsoever is rather reckless, for it is an allowance whereby it can sneak up on you unawares and bother you.  The best way to get rid of anything truly uncomfortable is to outright confront it.

I agree. I guess I am just quite overwhelmed by my laundry of list of things to look into it and right now I'm still just grasping all the nonsense that happened before and after the death of Joseph Smith. There is a lot to take in there. Lie upon lie upon lie and I don't think I have found the end to it. But then again sometimes I am convinced that sometimes you can't try to reasonably understand events due to unreasonable causes. It's like trying to understand the delusional, there is nothing more to understand other than they are delusional as deciphered by simple logic. But I'm definitely working through it. haha.

[LivingNumbers6.626]

Questions 3: No, I never received my first covenant of "endowment" in the temple so I was never required to wear it. If I had done endowments, then yes, I would have.

That is sad.  The magic underwear makes mormon boys that much sexier.

That's okay, I got swagger in the typical mormon attire.

[Paraselene]

Working through anything is the best option. Ignoring only perpetuates a problem.

[Paraselene]

That's okay, I got swagger in the typical mormon attire.

Except that now you can be even sexier in normal people clothes. Hubba-hubba.

[Minimalist]

Now that you are out of the fold, who gets your planet when you die?

Also, is Kolob a class-m planet and why hasn't the hubble gotten a picture of it?

[LivingNumbers6.626]

Now that you are out of the fold, who gets your planet when you die?

Also, is Kolob a class-m planet and why hasn't the hubble gotten a picture of it?

No, I keep my planet. Just because I'm out of the fold doesn't mean that I have totally forgotten about galactic conquest. I will reign supreme.

Kolob is actually a class H planet which is why God is always cranky because he is actually thirsty and burning up to a crisp in the Old Testament. Consequently having to evacuate the planet, he came to Earth, a class-m planet, as Jesus. (Even though mormons don't believe in the Trinity. haha)

Hubble hasn't gotten a picture on it because Kolob has cloaking rays that make it look like the Sun.